An upfront and personal conversation with the new artistic director of DC’s longest-running children’s theater.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:19PMUnderstudying Peter Marks at Mosaic Theater's season-reveal party, Ramona Harper asked the new artistic director new questions.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:15AMThe new artistic director and self-described 'new play development junkie' talks candidly about 'producing from a spirit of joy.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:03AMIn rehearsal for August Wilson's 'Seven Guitars' at Arena Stage, the renowned director opens up about the future of theater and America.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMThe new artistic director and director of programming has her sights set on equity and community.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46PMImagined musings on the historically real friendship between Marian Anderson and Albert Einstein, two powerful voices for freedom.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:42AMOn the scene at Shakespeare Theatre Company's buzzed-about fundraiser.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01AMPatriotism and love of country were in the air as a unifying force to heal the past and lend hope to a future of inclusion and equality for all.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMYou don’t need to be a baseball fan to be inspired by this amazing story.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:07PMThe ballplayer who slugged it out against race and gender stereotypes in the 1950s shows what it takes to play the game today.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMAn insurrection by far-right extremists within the U.S. Capitol; Washington, DC, looking like a war zone prepared for battle; and capitols around the country braced for violence on the eve o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:44PMRevolution is rooted in protest. And in revolutionary ways, protest theater promotes social change. The ubiquitous We See You, White American Theater movement courageously flips the script u…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10AMNo doubt about it, in just fifteen minutes, protest theater can pack a powerful punch. Theater Alliance’s creatively ambitious A Protest in Eight, with its lineup of eight fierce young pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:12PMThe ground feels as if American theater might actually be shifting in the direction of change for Blacks, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Here in the DMV, Studio Theatre is grappling…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMRecently, during an interview with Nicole Brewer, founder of Anti-Racist Theatre, I learned about the Arts Administrators of Color Network’s Accomplices Leadership Institute (ALI). As a me…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30PMRacial unrest and violent protests in the streets. Social division and a nation on the verge of collapse. A nascent social movement confronting racial injustice and police brutality. Interna…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:25PMI had the chance to attend Nicole Brewer’s Anti-Racist Theatre workshop at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, last year, and it was an eyeopener. So whe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMBoots are on the ground. Battle lines are drawn. A collaborative network of more than 300 BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) theatermakers are in garrisons and trenches across the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSomething struck me as incredulous about Rasheeda Speaking, a ticking time bomb about racial paranoia interlaced with the destructive power of office politics. But its recently deceased play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54AMCorners can be safe spaces for hiding. There’s comfort in corners because they’re out of sight and out of danger. In The Amen Corner, James Baldwin’s dilemma is whether to embrace the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54AMAfter almost two centuries of gracing the ballet world, American Ballet Theatre’s Giselle, sometimes called the Hamlet of ballet, still has the redemptive power to transform a story of dec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34AMIn a veddy, veddy proper tale about class differences, gender roles, secret lovers and the pitfalls of an arranged marriage, playwright Melynda Kiring is quite right that “the fun in this …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMThe NSO Pops helped to make our spirits bright with its annual Christmas concert featuring Tony and Grammy Award-winning Leslie Odom, Jr. and a parcel of musical gifts from his Simply Christ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41PMThe most successful singing group in the history of R&B proudly lives on in the Tony-award winning jukebox musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. Now onstage a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PMAn antebellum plantation is a hotbed of erotica in the raw, ribald and at times ridiculously funny examination of race in Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play. Three interracial couples run wild,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03PMRage is scary. We don’t know what to do with rage. It’s uncomfortable and untouchable. We fear what’s inside when rage is lurking around. But in What To Send Up When It Goes Down, cr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMIndia.Arie is music therapy for the soul – part mindfulness meditation through song and part groove-funk to keep it real. Authenticity is her brand essence, but her performance is much mor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34PMAs seen through the simple symbolism of a wooden fence, Ford’s Theatre’s season opener of August Wilson’s Fences is a brilliant and searing exploration of the tragi-conflicts and heroi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:18PMTeenage girls can be mean – just ask Broadway’s Tina Fey. But if you ask Jocelyn Bioh, the award-winning playwright of off-Broadway’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, you…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMWhen the opening moments of a play are a super loud blast of bluesy music and a checkers game on the verge of anarchy, you know you are in for a lively ride. But it was the acting in Jitney,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AMThere’s something way-cool seeing a full classical orchestra accompany a cornrowed, ponytailed R&B crooner in a bow-tied tux on the stage of the hallowed Concert Hall of the Kennedy Ce…
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